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The 1815–46 Corn Laws: your guide to the crisis and why they were repealed

Madame Tussaud's exhibition at Baker Street, London. But who was her first waxwork? (Photo by Bettmann, via Getty Images)

Q&AWho was Madame Tussaud’s first waxwork?

Mary Anning was an extremely prolific fossil hunter

Mary Anning: the woman who hunted dinosaurs

The 'Iron Duke' steam locomotive with railway workers

The history of railways in Britain: from the first steam trains to the rail revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Picture depicting the Cato Street conspirators

To kill the cabinet: the Cato Street Conspiracy of 1820

Engraved portrait of George Washington, the first president of the United States of America

George Washington: your guide to the war hero, founding father, first US president and slave owner

How slavery fuelled the British empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An account of the story of James Allen, whose sex at birth was revealed only by an autopsy conducted after their death

'Female husbands': the secret lives of 18th-century transgender pioneers

Actor Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's Monster in James Whale's classic 1931 film

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: the birth of a gothic monster

Rich vs poor in Regency Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An Australian Sea Shanty band, c1988

A brief history of sea shanties

A 19th-century engraving. A young woman plays a harp, singing a duet with a man holding the music book, Duets de L’Amour. (Photo by Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

A survivor's guide to Georgian marriage

19th century advert for snuff

Q&AWhat was snuff?

A cartoon depicting the Duke of Wellington, who demands attention outside a house, while the Duke of Argyll, inside with Harriette Wilson, pretends not to recognise him.

Georgian Britain: sex in high places

The Industrial Revolution: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An East India Company official riding on an elephant

The East India Company: how a trading corporation became an imperial ruler

Rege-Jean Page as Simon Basset and Phoebe Dynevor as Daphne Bridgerton

Bridgerton season one: “A period drama like no other”

Bridgerton: ripping up the rulebook on Regency romance. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Editor’s pick: Ron Chernow on Alexander Hamilton. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of founding father Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull

Your guide to Alexander Hamilton, plus 6 fascinating facts about the founding father

Edward Jenner

Q&AWhen did medical practitioners start to be called ‘doctor’?

Nelson's passion for Emma – with whom he had a six-year affair – is writ large in his letters

Nelson in his own words

Imperialism on the oceans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jane Austen's fiction: an accurate portrayal of life in Georgian England?

The orphan hero who fought at Trafalgar. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

England’s sporting obsession. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

This engraving by William Hogarth shows the final instalment of a sequence of artworks called 'The Four Stages of Cruelty' (1751). In it, the fictional Tom Nero is being dissected for anatomical studies at Cutlerian theatre near Newgate prison after being hanged for murder. Nero looks like the Dead-Alive, as though he can see and smell his own executed body on the dissection table. The chief physician sits in the centre on a high-backed chair, resembling a high court judge. He is surrounded by various medical men, including penal surgeons, who did gallows work. The skeletons of dissected criminals were usually refused a Christian burial and so were displayed as specimens, as can be seen top left and top right. (Photo by Guildhall Library/Getty Images)

Surviving the gallows: the Georgian hangings that didn't go to plan

The colonial secrets of Britain’s stately homes

Princess Elizabeth (the future Queen Elizabeth II) and Princess Margaret as Prince Charming and Cinderella in a 1941 pantomime

Q&AWhat are the origins of the Christmas pantomime?

A 19th-century engraving of Francis Grose

History heroSusie Dent chooses Francis Grose (1731–1791)